Ash-sifter.



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

THOMAS P. BOLGrER, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SUCCESS MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHU- SETTS.

ASH-SIETER.

Spechcaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Dee. -3, 1907.

i Application iiled April 8. 1907. Serial No. 367x076.

To all whom it may concern:4

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. BOLGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in an Ash-Sitter, of which the following is a specihcation.

This invention relates to ash sifters and more particularly to means for reciprocating the sieve ofthe same the object being to provide the sifter with a shaft provided with a crank carrying a link connected to the sieve, so that the sieve will be reciprocated longitudinally as the shaft is rotated.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims. f

In the drawings forming a part of this specification z-Figure l is a perspective view of my improved sieve showing it arranged on a barrel. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the, sifter. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of thesame. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the manner of connecting the sieve to the crank.

Referring tothe drawing A indicates a hanged metal cap adapted to ht snugly on an ordinary barrel or ash receptacle having a rectangular shaped opening in the top, on which the rectangular shaped opening of a casing B, is adapted to ht. The side edges A of the openings of the cap are bent downwardly into the groove B formed in the lower ends of the tapering sides B2 of the casing. The casing is provided with an inclined end B3 having a hopper C extending upwardly therefrom provided with a hinged top C, the lower end of the end B3 htting under the hanged edge A3 of the end of the opening of the cap. The upper edges of the sides B2 of the casing are provided with outwardly proj ecting hanges over which the guide edges D of a top D is adapted to ht, which are provided with a hanged endl)2 adapted to ht over the hanged edge of the end B4L which is secured to the end of the sides and has a reduced lower end forming one side of the spout E, the other side of which is provided with a hanged upper end htting under the hanged edge Al1 of the end of the opening. The side edges of the sides of the spout are hanged to which are secured the depending portion B5 of the sides of the casing forming the ends of the spout. A hook F pivotally mounted on the end B4 of the casing is proadapted to ht up against the end lid Dwhen in a vertical position and securely hold the top in place. p

Brackets G are secured on the inside ofthe sides B2 of the casing, on which the side bars of the wire sieve H, are mounted. Soldered to the wire netting of the sieve adjacent its upper end, is a bowed bar I over which is looped one end of a link J, the other end of which is looped over the double-crank portion K of a shaft K, mounted in the side of the casing, under the hopper having a crank handle K2 formed on one end by means of which the shaft is rotated, so as to reciprocate the sieve causing the ashes to drop through the sieve into the barrel or receptacle and the coal and cinders to shake down and out the spout into a bucket adapted to be placed on the hook F. Inclined guide plates L and M are secured -vided with an upwardly extending end F to the inside ofthe front and back of the hopper the plate L guides the ashes on to the sieve, and prevents the ashes from dropping down behind the same when the sieve is iorced downwardly.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A sitter comprising a cap`provided with a casing having a hopper at one end, and a spout at the other end, a top slidably mounted on said casing, a hook pivotally mounted on the end of said casing, adapted to engage said top and lock it thereon, a sieve slidably mounted in said casing and means for reciprocating said sieve.

THOMAS P. BOLGER. Vitnesses:

ALFRED E. CREssoN,

M. FRANCIS BUCKLEY. 

